All Nippon Airways Splits $16.6 Billion Aircraft Order

Boeing and Airbus each won something to brag about in their latest face-off, as All Nippon Airways of Japan said on Thursday that it would split a $16.6 billion order between the two plane makers.

Boeing won about 80 percent of the order based on value and kept Airbus from encroaching further on its sales of large wide-body jets. But Airbus received orders for smaller planes and continued to make inroads in a country where Boeing had long been dominant.

All Nippon’s purchases came just over six months after another carrier, Japan Airlines, shook the industry by ordering $9.5 billion of Airbus’s new A350 wide-body jets. While Boeing and Airbus compete fiercely in most countries, Japan had been almost a captive buyer of American planes since its reconstruction after World War II.

All Nippon’s order included 40 of Boeing’s wide-body planes — 20 777-9X models, 14 787-9 models and six 777-300ER models — to be delivered between fiscal 2017 and 2027.

The 777-9X, a replacement now being designed for the current 777, will compete with Airbus’s A350 line. Industry analysts had been watching closely to see whether ANA would follow Japan Air in switching to the A350.

ANA’s order for the 787-9s, a longer version of Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner, also is significant since All Nippon was the first customer for the 787 and operates more of the planes than any other airline.

All Nippon and JAL both lost millions of dollars in revenue when the fuel-saving planes were grounded for four months last year because of battery hazards. But the latest order would increase ANA’s fleet of Dreamliners to 80 and shows it is sticking with the plane.

The value of airplane orders is always quoted in list prices, though Japanese officials made clear that the competition between the manufacturers helped them achieve hefty discounts.

“Both aircraft makers were very aggressive in their sales pitches,” All Nippon’s president, Shinichiro Ito, told reporters in Tokyo. “That helped us secure even better conditions.”

ANA ordered 30 planes from Airbus, including seven A320neo jets and 23 of the A321neo model.

Besides giving Airbus additional sales in Japan, the deal also solidified its more general edge in selling the next generation of smaller single-aisle jets. Its Neo models have been outselling Boeing’s 737 MAX around the world.

The purchases from Boeing and Airbus also amount to All Nippon’s biggest order and will help bring its fleet to 250 planes.

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